today. don harrison went to the spca to see how people and the shelter feel about the decision. >> reporter: these are the faces of a difficult decision. a court ruling last year state that all pit bulls should be labeled inherently dangerous. that forced many to either give up a loved family member or face a lawsuit if the dog attacked anyone. a spokesperson with the spca took in a handful. >> owner has to make the decision to pick between their home and dog. >> reporter: she believes today's vote will now make the decision to give up a dog less about the breed and more about the individual. >> regardless of breed, each dog has a individual personality and breed doesn't play a part. >> reporter: in fact most owners say the breed is very people friendly.

>> they are very people friendly. they are anxious to please people. you know, they love to snuggle. they are really great dogs. >> reporter: here, they see a much better future for the pit bulls. >> going forward we are hoping more will be able to keep their dogs in their home and not have to make the decision to give up the dog based on the living environment they are in. in addition to that hopefully more insurance companies will be accepting more dogs here will be able to find homes. >> reporter: in annapolis, don harrison. abc 2news. >> now the bill moves over to the senate where many expect it to be approved and tonight we will talk to tony. he is the father who pushed to have pit bulls labeled dangerous and get his thoughts on today's vote. now two other big ticket items are up for votes. >> the gun control measure is expected to get a vote in the committee and the chair said he

expects a 6-5 vote in favor of the bill that would change the face of gun laws in our state. it includes a ban on assault style weapons and requires fingerprints from anyone who buys a gun. that same committee will also vote on a bill to repeal the death penalty and it's expected to get out of the committee on the same margin. there are five men on the death row right now. the last execution came back in 2005 when wesley baker was put to death for the 1991 murder of jane tyson in the parking lot of the west view mall. in less than go hours the county will decide on its next executive. >> they are set to vote at 7:00 tonight. they are picking a replacement for the former county executive. 16 candidates have applied for the position including the former maryland first lady and acting county executive. as soon as we get the word we will bring it to you on twitter and on the website. now to a story that could

affect your money. >> yes. we are just days from major cuts in the government spend that could affect all of us. >> we are tracking the countdown and new attempts by the president trying to reach across the aisle to prevent it. >> reporter: washington is once again facing deadline pressure. >> there is no other profession, no other industry where people wait until the 11th hour to solve these big problems. >> reporter: today the president called the house speaker and senate minority leader to talk about the $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that will go into effect on march fierceness congress acts. the phone call marked the first time they have talked on this issue since the fiscal cliff deal. the president said yesterday that it never should have gotten to this point. >> these automatic spending cuts that were put into place back in 2011 were designed to get congress to actually avoid them by coming together with

more sensible approaches. >> reporter: yesterday the pentagon said if the cuts happen it'll furlough most of its 800,000 civilian work force. losing one day of work a week for up to 22 weeks would mean a cut of 20% in pay. military people would be exempt but. >> the across the board cuts to defense will harm our national security interests, will reduce our readiness. >> reporter: the cut also have a ripple affect across the nation. tsa agents could be furloughs meaning longer lines at security. 1,000 fbi and other agents off the job and 70,000 preschoolers dropped from head start. next week the president will hit the road to highlight what the white house called the real world impact of these cuts including lost jobs. abc news washington. >> now if an agreement isn't reached in time more than 100,000 federal employees right here in the state could have

their salaries cut. >> all new, adam jones, chris davis and matt weeder also have a all new look when they step in to the batter's box. a new batting helmet developed will be standard issue for all teams this season. the players getting used to them right now. the helmets are supposed to better protect player's head from fast balls that get away from players like cc. i will never forgive him for hitting nick markakis. we will get him. you know that. thank you. when it comes to head injuries, specifically concussions we have you covered head to toe. head to abc 2news slash concussion. we have dozens of storeys and graphics there to help you understand concussions and what's being done to prevent them. >> and one of the most famous fans showed up. michael phelps talking to buck. he is a golf coach helping

phelps with his game. he spent the day with the team. they gave him a jury civil number 18 and he took batting practice with the orioles. baseball to football. making the rounds. >> your used car may be allot more valuable than you think. what's driving up the price that could mean a little more cash when you sell it. >> is that group -- grab for dinner what it's labeled? what places the worst offender when is it comes to fish fraud. >> weather wise, blue skies on the banks of the river. my how different it'll look by tomorrow night and probably an ugly saturday. we have the full weekend forecast coming up. mine was earned in djibouti, africa, 2004.

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. stocks continued on a slide that started yesterday. s and p headed for its first weekly loss of the year. weak economic data is blamed for the slide. in tonight's consume ear alert your used car apparently become canning a little more valuable. a shortage of used cars means prices on on the rise.

they also cut down on new car leases forces people to turn to used cars. the high demand means higher prices. when you buy fish there is a good chance you aren't getting what you paid for. a new study shows fish fraud is off the charts. about a third of all the fish sold may be falsely labeled. restaurants are the worst offenders with 74% of samples miss labeled. grocery stores have the lowerrest rates at 18%. >> we have a warning -- the fbi may be popping up but it's a scam. how it happens and what you can do to keep safe. women talk more than men. a new study suggests we are changing that way. we will explain. >> stick around for this one. >> we will explain.

. now, maryland's most accurate forecast. >> sunny skies, that was nice today wasn't it? days getting loner. you can tell the sun has more intense ty. i was outside for a couple hours, you can feel it but the wind also felt so it wasn't a spring like day. look at that chop, our cameras just shaking a little bit. high on top of crbc. we look at the key bridge and hawkins point and ellicott city. talk about bright conditions. you need the dark sunglasses for that evening drive but a beautiful finish here in ellicott city. let's take you into some of the numbers out there. you can see the winds are west

northwest around 15, gusting higher, gusting around 20, still a wind chill factor in the upper 20s. that's what it feels like with that wind. it'll be less breezy as we go toward the midnight hour but also clouds start to increase. things changing and will not keep the clear set up throughout the day tomorrow. maybe a little sun first thing in the morning and then we will have that. clouds rolling in. maybe a few light showers, even winter type showers, talking about sleet mainly threat and then as we go in to the afternoon another wave of precipitation. this model run puts a lot of it just south the baltimore area. that could shift further north. we will toys hit and miss scattered sleet showers with rain showers tomorrow. as we go into tomorrow night, that could mean, could mean icy conditions north and west in particular the city on some of the overpasses, midnight start all changes to rain when the coastal system changing to the north and east.

improving weather by late saturday. certainly sunday looks better. you can see what's coming our way. large system here. snow north. here is the winter mix line. the tennessee valley and then rain as you go south toward the gulf coast. this storm headed our way. starts to arrive through the day tomorrow. for more on the set up let's go over to mike. >> this will be an interesting storm. just so much cold air still on top of us and then the problem will be when will it start to erode? let's show you the break up and the break down. notice the temperatures. at 36 in town. look our mild it is down to the south. charlotte. you are dealing with temperatures near 60 degrees but the high pressure to the north will lock in the cold over the next 24 hours and when will that mild air over run this and erode it? be think the cold air will hang on long enough for us to see generally just about a sleet, maybe snow situation.

sitting on points to the north and east. i think the western beltway could be a long period of sleet tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening. then on point to the south and east, down toward the bay bridge it'll be a rain, sleet situation. this is our ice cast and just showing you maybe sleet during the course of tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow evening. we will have to watch this. it's not going to bode well for the evening as we expect again, some wet -- and also potentially icy conditions going in to the evening. we have more information on this, abc 2news.com. here is my blog and this will give you a timeline as to how we think this will play out. we will have new information at six. a new model run coming in right now and wyatt will have another update. we will talk again the at six. >> we will watch for that system into tomorrow night. especially tomorrow evening. in the meantime tonight we are all clear. cold, 24, clouds increase

tomorrow, 35, and we look for that rain, sleet mix in the afternoon, temperatures around freezing tomorrow evening. this is where we have the concern. still mixed showers that some areas elevated surface, north and west of baltimore could ice up. next few days, all right. the sleet, turning to just rain on saturday. you can seat overall trend here is a slightly mildler one. once we get past the storm, once we get past saturday we are back to mid to upper 40s, partly sunny day, not bad and getting a little mildler early this week though there will be more rain by tuesday. back and forth we go. >> all right. a wash out. >> after one tomorrow life is over for a while. right? >> until sunday. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> you may be turning in our computer and instead of the start up page you find something frightening on the screen. >> it's a warning the fbi. john tells you how it happens and what you can do so you

don't waste your money. >> reporter: if you are like most people you are pretty careful online and you never visit questionable or porn websites. then think of getting a notice from the fbi that your computer has been locked because you have been where you shouldn't be. jennifer sat down at her pc a few days ago and couldn't believe what she saw. a website taken over her computer. >> saw a screen up on the computer and it had like i guess the fbi logo and we thought that maybe someone in the house did something wrong or something. >> reporter: the fbi alert stated she had visited an illegal website and as a reassault was being lock -- as a result was being locked out unless she paid a 200-dollar fine. >> they wanted a 200-dollar card to unblock our computer. >> reporter: at point she got suspicious, send a fine by a

debit card by a drugstore? they realized then it was ransom ware that had taken or. they searched on their phones and found instructions for removing the fbi green.money pack ransom ware virus. >> i fit f12, rebooted the system and then followed some instructions to aself cleaning. >> reporter: if this happens to you search on another computer or phone for the fix or call a computer repair shop. jennifer is glad she didn't pay the ransom. assume any e-mail or online notice from the government is a scam, especially if it doesn't include your name in the title. the fbi, irs or other agencies won't e-mail you. they will write a letter or show up with a knock on your door. that way you don't waste your money. >> thank you. that the ravens have won what will they do next in how about upgrade the stadium?

when you walk through next season you will see a new look. the team wants the inside to look more like the outside so they will wrap the columns in brick and add purple accent lighting. concession stands are also getting upgraded aimed to speed up service and giving the fans more of an open air feel. >> the project we are doing now is a continuing effort to improve the game day experience for the fans here. we are going to spend $35 million over the next two years. >> maybe the best part, two giant high definition video boards wills be installed. that's going to be great. this is a great story. greg just points and shoots. but what he sees behind that lens is art beyond words. so thisself taught photographer who has won every award you can think of showed off his pictures at the chapel nursing

and rehab center today. out in the audience was his 97- year-old grandmother, now i want you to hear from greg who tells you who he loves to take pictures of followed by one proud mom. >> ray louis, of the baltimore ravens. >> he has -- i really think -- is better than anything i could have imagined. >> he has cp. he is as big a champion as the ravens as he brought the ravens parade to the young ladies here who couldn't make it to the city for the parade. man they saw firsthand what it was about. >> that's impressive. >> a hot topic tonight. a new study says women out talk men because we are just wired that way. >> what did you say? >> you weren't listening. >> researchers -- you have to repeat everything. researchers conducted this study. they looked at a protein that's essential for speech, they live that women have more of the protein than men.

the idea was tested on rats where it seems to hold true. the rats had nothing to say. the study suggests women are designed to be more talkative but what possible reason could there be for humans to evolve this way? >> it's believed that back when men had the big guns and controlled everything much more than they do today the only weapons women had were wits and words. >> other studies have claimed 20,000 words a day for a women and 7,000 for a man. weigh in on this study. have women evolved to talk more? log onto the website and let us know what you think. why did i read that? >> i have 19,000 words left. >> tonight? >> its going to be a long night. coming up new, human trafficking could be happening outside your door. how you can get involved help save lives. and our latest belaire honda athlete of the week.

danny murphy. how the boy's latin singer is calling all the shots. nose more at six.

. you have the youngest and the oldest nominees ever are competing for the same statue. >> brandy has more on their incredible trip to the awards. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: two women are making history in the best actress category as the oldest and youngest nominees ever.

>> congratulations. >> thank you. >> reporter: a 9-year-old may have difficulty reaching a press microphone but won many hearts in her first film. >> me and my daddy we stay right here. >> reporter: she is competing against hollywood's leading lady. nominated for her role. with six decades of experience the 85-year-old was awarded a basta in london. looking back the oldest best actress winner won when she was 80. marley matlin is the youngest at 21 and many remember raven oneal who won best supporting actress for paper moon. >> i'm happy and excited but -- its something that you never think that will happen at your age. >> reporter: many critics

believe this year experience will pay off in oscar gold. >> i think she will win best actress. she is amazing in this movie. >> reporter: on top of that oscar sunday just happens to be her 86th birthday meaning she could have two reasons to celebrate. brandy hittabc news los angeles. >> all the oscar and excitement is here on abc news. watch the academy awards sunday night at seven and stay tuned for abc 2news at 11. >> baltimore woman uses her own experience to help elm power other women with disabilities. >> we will introduce you to her coming up on the news at six which starts right now. >> you are watching the station that works for you. now abc 2news at six. >> my goal was not for my parents and children to be out like this. >> reporter: people dropping off their children at a daycare center fou